Riding The Supreme Court Roller Coaster

FIRST, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT legalized abortion. Then, decades later, feverishly obsessed with extremist right wing passion and newly invogorated, seemingly unconcered with the literal text of the American constitution to which they so ardently allege allegiance, states dominated by Republican politicians began passing laws, blatantly unconstitutional, re-criminalizing personal reproductive choice. Federal courts, recognizing their constitutional duty, properly prohibited those illegal laws from taking effect. Federal appellate courts, packed deliberatly with ultra conservative ideologues whose fidelity to the constitution is selective, reversed the obviously correct circuit court rulings. Now, even as we ride this judicial roller coaster, the whole "hot mess", as some like to say, is destined to be decided finally, once again, by the highest court in the land. One can only guess how many more times this issue will be decided, and re-decided over the next few millennia. This crazy patchwork American judicial tapestry is parr for the course in polarized America, where every issue is polticized, and every court renering, great and small, is the product of personal political ideology, rather than judicial wisdom, when in the hands and minds of ultra right wing jurists. We can expect nothing better in a system in which people are placed on the bench not on account of their qualifications, but when and only when they are sufficiently, demonstrably conservative personally. The intent of right wing America is of course to remake America in their reactionary, outdated image, politically, legally, economically, and socially, now, and forever. Ultimately this slow motion coup will fail; its not what we the American people want. Conservative politicians, shockingly, unashamedly acknowledge that a conservative personal political ideology is to them a paramount qualification in appointing judges to the bench. This is twisted. They don't even bother to make a token effort to conceal their twisted and biased value system. The judges themselves still do try to conceal the conservative bias in their renderings from the bench, which may be all that gives us any hope. We have reached a level of judicial corruption which calls for term limits for federal judges, and if we are going to have a highly politicized Supreme Court why not require that three justices be proven conservatives, three proven progressives, and three proven moderates? A handful of biased people appointed to the Supreme Court for purely political purposes for life terms is inherently unqualified to make decisions fundementally effecting the lives and welfare of millions of people. And, in fact, the American judicial system is obvously unable to use the existing constitution to render final, definifitve decisions on the most pressing issues of the day, issues such as reproductive rights, gun rights, and voting rights, among many others. With more people, more ubiased, qualified people participating in the decision making proces, perhaps at long last we the American people could arrive at acceptable, lasting decisions on the most urgentlly pressing issues in American law, issues and decisions which have hitherto completely perplexed and eluded our highest courts, and have turned the American judical system into a mockery of justice, a roller coaster rising, falling, flailing and gyrating according to the whims of extremist politicians. Obsiously, we deserve better.